(06-08-2019, 08:46 AM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I noticed that the flail parallel works particularly well when compared to this one MS (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.), which also features the most convincing twining of the ropes around the column. This suggests that, if this mnemonic is indeed in place, it was taken from an image directly related to this one.
The description says the miniatures were copied from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , but this MS includes only the standard "scientific" content and does not add the somewhat out of place Arma Christi page at the end...
Ironically, I've sampled both text and faces from this folio (in BNF fr 574) in the past, but did not sample the flagellation items (and it never occurred to me that there might be a flagellation connection in the VMS, so I've zoomed past hundreds of flagellation illuminations over the years without giving them a second thought except for occasionally hunting for "the thing").
So... the reason
this manuscript caught my attention was not the flagellation items, but the duc de Berry ex lib (duc de Berry seems to come up frequently when I am searching for Voynich-related imagery) and also the added text just after that folio that includes this three-headed flower, which is a bit unusual (there were lots of curlicues in signatures in those days, but a more explicit flower motif was definitely less common). I also sampled the hellmouth image (I have a lot of hellmouths).
and the large drawing of the viola that follows it (I remember thinking to myself, someone connected with this region is interested in plants but the plant is odd, the stems are thick and cut as though it were a tree/shrub (trimming the stems is not something one does with viola) and the leaves are wrong, but the flowers are drawn like viola. It's almost like it's a hybrid plant... emblematic. The text above it is 14th or 15th century, so the text is not as early as the earlier part of the manuscript, but it's still within 15th century range.